Over the last month we’ve accepted 47 pull requests, fixed 16 issues, updated 9 modules and added 5 new resources! The new resources are xExchMaintenanceMode, xExchMailboxServer, xExchTransportService and xExchEventLogLevel in the xExchange module as well as xDefaultGatewayAddress shipped as part of the Networking module. These new additions bring us to the total of 225 DSC resources!

We have a few new resources this month and a number of significant bug fixes made to existing resources that are critical in our march towards stability and robustness. All in all, there are 8 new DSC resources across 5 modules and bug fixes made across 10 modules.

This new Quick Start Reference Deployment outlines architectural considerations and steps for implementing a configuration management solution using the PowerShell DSC platform. This reference is specifically designed to provide an understanding of how to use AWS CloudFormation and PowerShell DSC to bootstrap your servers and applications from scratch, how to deploy a highly available PowerShell DSC pull server environment using AWS resources, and how to ensure that your instances are resilient to configuration drift once your Windows-based application stack has been deployed on AWS.